Empathy is the most powerful weapon [...]

When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never - since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a catharsis, or to end a development. On the contrary, its objective is to encourage autonomous activity, to set a process in motion, to stimulate transformative creativity, to change spectators into protagonists. And it is precisely for these reasons that the Theatre of the Oppressed should be the initiator of changes the culmination of which is not the aesthetic phenomenon but real life.

It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.

Empathy is the most powerful weapon [...]

Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.